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BTRAC - New TMC, 20000 road signs

8 October 2008 - 9:04am — silkboard

BTRAC TMCAs the newspapers reported, work began on a brand new Traffic Management Center for Bangalore on October 6. Its being designed by the same guys who have build Network Operation Centers and Data cnters for IT companies, the facility is going to be similar to those - lots of screens on one big wall and seatings or cubicles besides it for policemen to watch and control cemeras and signals:

"Safe Passage" KR Pura Initiative by Chandrasekar K

7 October 2008 - 5:16pm — psaram42
11 Oct 2008 15:00
11 Oct 2008 17:00
Asia/Calcutta

Venue: Greater Bangalore Industrial Association Conference hall #40-J Opposite. N.G.E.F Ancillary Estate, Dodda-nekundi Industrial Area, 2nd Phase, Mahadevapura Post, Bangalore - 560 048.

Date: Saturday 11th Oct 2008

Time: 3.00pm.

Invited: Community leaders of KR Puram Area, Praja members

Organiser: Chandrasekar K

ABIDE invites volunteers

7 October 2008 - 11:45am — blrsri
7 Oct 2008 11:43
22 Oct 2008 11:43
Asia/Calcutta

ABIDE is calling for volounteers, they can register from http://rajeev.in site

Sanity Check: Bangalore international airport rail link

7 October 2008 - 1:46am — Devesh

[Cross posted from My Blog]

The Karnataka state government is tripping over itself trying to expedite the High Speed Rail Link (HSRL) to the new Bengaluru International Airport (BIA), conservatively expected to cost Rs. 5,200 - Rs. 5,700 Crore by completion date, somewhere by 2012.

New underpasses/flyovers on ORR - a suggestion

6 October 2008 - 10:47am — silkboard

Marathahalli UnderpassYou may have noticed that Outer Ring Road upgrade work is picking up serious momentum. Work on service lanes is in full swing, and it seems like survey work is on for the new underpass/flyovers as well. So if all goes well, we should have a nice six lane "corridor" from Hebbal to silk board junction. Good show indeed! At the same time, it'll be good to look ahead at the impact of this ORR upgrade project.

Belgaum is Ideal for Nano Plant

5 October 2008 - 10:21pm — belgaumblog

2,611 acres of land available at Vantamuri’Belgaum has good infrastructure, says Abhay Kumar Patil, MLA

Tata Motors can take a look at an “ideal site” in Belgaum before taking any decision on relocating its Nano car manufacturing plant said Mr.patil.

Fund Children; not Schools

5 October 2008 - 7:25pm — murali772

The most striking lesson for India is from Sweden’s education reforms in the early 1990s. Sweden has decentralised its system - shifting the control of schools from the centre to municipalities - and has given parents a choice whether to send their children to state or private schools (but paid by the state with a voucher).

Hot Pursuit of Solar Energy

5 October 2008 - 6:44pm — murali772

In its ‘hot pursuit ’for more solar energy, after the State Government set the ball rolling with its measures to increase production from renewable energy sources through public private partnerships, the Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL) has received a good response from the private players.

Learning from Road Layouts

4 October 2008 - 6:42pm — asj

Dear All,

I have for some time wanted to share how planning road layouts is vital for ensuring traffic flows smoothly.

Here is the first in what I hope to make a series (and hope other contribute too) of road layouts from UK. Aim is to share these observations with our planners to reduce entropy on our roads.

A Typical cross junction in UK

BMTC Study Reports

4 October 2008 - 1:19am — silkboard

Some email lists have suddenly discovered BMTC study reports. We have talked about these last month in comments here and there, thought I'd post a link again. See them here.



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